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Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

Growing Explanations: Historical Perspectives on Recent Science

Wise, M. Norton

Paperback

Series: Science and Cultural Theory

Sports GeneralGeneticsHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0822333198
ISBN13: 9780822333197
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Nov 24 2004
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components--nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on--but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them up rather than breaking them down. This collection reflects on the history and significance of this turn toward growing explanations from the bottom up. The essays show how this strategy--based on a widespread appreciation for complexity even in apparently simple processes and on the capacity of computers to simulate such complexity--has played out in a broad array of sciences. They describe how scientists are reordering knowledge to emphasize growth, change, and contingency and, in so doing, are revealing even phenomena long considered elementary--like particles and genes--as emergent properties of dynamic processes.

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